This is always an iffy topic to discuss, but I've had enough badgering and judgments.
I've been saying for the past 4 years that I was NEVER going to vote again. I think our country is in bad shape. Of course, I'm not the president and I haven't the slightest clue how hard it is to run a whole country. I also never really paid attention in Government class cause it was really boring to me. I always got away with a "c" and that was okay with me.
I'm so sick and tired of listening to people at work bash people who aren't voting for Obama. It's like religion, to me. Just because you're Catholic doesn't make your religion better than mine. Being a Baptist doesn't make you better. Being a Lutheran or Methodist doesn't make you right. It's all different interpretations. I don't think it's right to judge people because they practice a different religion than you. Just like I don't think it's right to judge people because they don't share the same opinion as you when it comes to politics.
I don't watch anything leading up to the Presidential Election. I can't stand listening to each side bash the other side. I think that each candidate tells people what they think they want to hear and maybe not so much what they actually plan to do if elected. All I really care about is not paying higher taxes. We pay too much as it is, in my opinion. And, maybe lower the effing gas prices...but I know that won't be regulated, so I won't go there.
In the past few days I have been listening to people at work bash McCain and Palin. One person made a comment about "that woman!" This same person was all about Hillary when she was running for the nomination. It's okay for Clinton to be a woman but apparently not okay for Palin. And who effing cares that Palin has a pregnant 17 year old daughter. That's nobody's business but there's. Are we going to judge them for that? How many people do you know who've had babies out of wedlock? It doesn't matter.
My point is...SHUT-UP! If you want to vote for Obama, have at it. If you want to vote for McCain, have at it. But stop judging the other side. Who died and made you God? Back in the day when George Washington was elected president, was this how it was? Is this how they intended it to be? Was is always about the Democrats hating on the Republicans and the Republicans hating on the Democrats? (Oh dear God, I used those both in the same sentence. Will I go to Politic Hell for that?) Will there ever be a time where both sides can be civil to each other? I mean, this is the person who's going to run our country. Why do we have to choose between two sides that hate each other? It's not like a ball game rivalry. This is our country. Isn't there a better way?
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I am still undecided. But I don't discuss the election with anybody except John. B/c people get ugly. And rude and disrespectful and act like you are an idiot if you do not agree with them. I think it's one big circus to be quite honest. If there was one side that didn't slam the other, I'd vote for that one. But that doesn't happen. Politicians get smug during their speeches and makes my skin crawl. Like they're so much smarter than the other side. UGH, JUST SHUT UP ALREADY. Quit spending so much of your precious time bitching about your opponent and talk about what you want to do for us, ya know what I mean?
Anyway...politics suck. I took my college govt course as a sr in hs, and I slept through 98% of it. What? It was an 8 am class! And it's boring! That and I swear they picked up a hobo, put him in some khakis, and told him to teach a govt class. I didn't learn a damn thing. So there. Boo for politics.
My point exactly. I think I may have figured out a way to shut people up though. I've decided to register to vote. Quite honestly, who I vote for is my business, but I'm telling certain people who won't leave me alone about it, that I'm voting for McCain just to counteract their vote for Obama. They don't like that too much, but maybe I've shut them the hell up!
Amen! People have seen me rant about politics for a while and I'm sorry if I've added to some of your ire (though I've tried hard not to). I just freakin' want people to be educated and not go after the new shiny thing. I know I want what can't happen (common American is a moron) but it feels good to rant.
I think people in this country are so idiotic that is Hitler was the Democratic nominee and Stalin was the Republican that we'd wind up with one of the as president.
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